help please, trying to make a stencil

[Jdt92065 0]

Hi i am trying to cut the rhino out of the pic and and make a stencil out of it for a special friend who actually takes of the rhino in the pic. 

[skarekrow 1,842]

What software do you have/are you using?

[skarekrow 1,842]

Here's the subject cut out from the background. Done in Photoshop with selection tools and the Eraser..

Then I desaturated and used posterize and cutout filters to arrive at this 4 color rendering;

From there I traced the .png image in Inkscape and produced these;

Rhinola4Layer.svg

Rhinola4Layer.eps

 

That's all just a quickie to let you know the process.

 

You may just want to create a single stencil to render the image... Same process just choke the filters more.

[slice&dice 2,451]

Cute lil' critter

[Ballistic 28]

That came out awesome, skarekrow...

[Jdt92065 0]

is it possible to do just a single color rendering , like black that way i can make a simple stencil out of it, Cant seem to figure it out

[jaybyrd 3,770]

I took skarekrow's image w/o the background into corel paint and filled the rhino a solid color. Imported that into Corel and did a trace for the silhouette you needed. It still nas a lot of the rough edges so depending on your needs it may be perfect or you may want to smooth it with a node editor.

rhino.eps

[skarekrow 1,842]

Here's another way with a few contours. Just cranked down on the Posterize and cutout filters in Photoshop a bit more.

Rhinola2color.eps

 

What software are you using, Jdt?

[skener 11]

Have to say these tips are great, gives me new things to try thanks for that.